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A drought is going to end in the 2016 World Series. The question is if it will be the Cleveland Indians winning their first title since 1948 or the Chicago Cubs winning their first title since 1908.

Starting on Tuesday, we'll find out. Before we preview the matchup, here's a look at the schedule and television information for the series: 

Fact: The Chicago Cubs beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 on Saturday night, advancing to the World Series for the first time since 1945.

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At long last, the 2016 World Series is set. 

While the Cleveland Indians punched their ticket on Wednesday—which feels like an eternity ago—the Chicago Cubs broke through and captured their first National League pennant since 1945 on Saturday with a 5-0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers at Wrigley Field. 

For the baseball fan who appreciates the historical aspect of the game, the Chicago Cubs clinching the National League Championship Series on Saturday night with a 5-0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers set up a dream World Series against the Cleveland Indians.

I went looking to see how Bleacher Report covered things the last time the Chicago Cubs went to the World Series. No luck.

I couldn't find any of our stories about the last Cleveland Indians' World Series title, either.

We weren't around in 1945 (the last time the Cubs made it) or in 1948 (the last time the Indians won it) or even in 1997 (the last time the Indians played in it).

The 2016 baseball season is now to two organizations, which just so happen to be the sport’s most tortured.

The Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs will take baseball’s two longest championship droughts into Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday.

But after winning the American League Championship Series and National League Championship Series respectively, each seemed to craft a blueprint for how to get to October’s Fall Classic.

CHICAGO — So, 71 years later, this is what it looks like when the Chicago Cubs storm into the World Series…

Anthony Rizzo hitting everything Clayton Kershaw threw him on the screws: a double, a long ball, a fly ball in the first inning that Los Angeles Dodgers left fielder Andrew Toles plumb dropped. Was that a goat impeding his vision?

Clayton Kershaw's worst postseason misadventures have mostly been tales of his having it and then losing it.

In Game 6 of the National League Championship Series, he never had it.

If you were to go up to any baseball fan in years past and tell them that the Chicago Cubs would meet the Cleveland Indians for Major League Baseball's championship, there's a good chance they would laugh in your face. 

The Chicago Cubs are partying like it's 1945.

Seventy-one years after the Cubs clinched their last pennant, the National League Central champions set up a World Series date against the Cleveland Indians with a 5-0 Game 6 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. It came behind a two-hit gem from starting pitcher Kyle Hendricks, who struck out six hitters in 7.1 scoreless innings at Wrigley Field on Saturday: